As home base for companies that are in the business of creating entertainment fantasies, the City of Burbank, California has seen plenty of happy endings. The city's information technology experts know, however, that the reality of backing up data is that if the job isn't done right, disaster is the more likely outcome.

When a full backup of the city's 125-plus servers became impossible overnight on a legacy tape system, Burbank went looking for a better answer. The city chose Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology.